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BOOK OF REVELATIONS 



BOOK OF REVELATIONS 



By 

CAROLYN SPENCER HALSTED 

Author of 
'Know Your Destiny" and "Your Unseen Guide' 



NEW YORK 
March, 1922 



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Copyright, 1922 
Carolyn Spencer Halsted 



NEW YORK 
J. F. TAPLEY CO. 



MAY -3 1922 
HCI.A661709 



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PREFACE 

In perusing the three books of the series 
consecutively the reader will notice the prog- 
ress made in the last volumes. Certain ques- 
tions about which there was doubt have been 
elucidated and somewhat altered; such as our 
destinies, who makes them, if any one, or how 
they happen to be as they are. The manner in 
which our guides lead us, is another. The 
code of signals between us and our guides has 
developed into a science of prophecy. All of 
which points to the increasing advance in the 
psychic as well as in the altogether material 
things of life. 



CONTENTS 

CHAPTEE PAGE 

I. Our Departure from This Life . . 9 

II. The Next Step 17 

III. Introduction to Heaven .... 25 

IV. The Real Immortal ..... 31 
V. The Psychological Science of 

Prophecy 41 

VI. Miracles 57 

VII. God and Christ ....... 67 

VIII. Some Pertinent Questions ... 69 

IX. A Final Summary 73 



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REVELATIONS 

CHAPTER I 

OUR DEPARTURE FROM THIS LIFE 

In learning the truth concerning the law of 
immortalization we must first study that of our 
departure from this life. We have always 
thought human life departed as did the lower 
animal life. We are now to know the truth. 
It would do so if left to its own devices, but it 
is never allowed to approach too near its ex- 
tinction for the reason that each mortal born 
into this existence has a living savior in another 
one to immortalize him or her according to 
law. A lif e allowed to go out could never live 
again as there is no law to produce a life ex- 

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cept the law of procreation. There is a law, 
however, to save mankind, to develop the in- 
dividual into an immortal. This process re- 
quires time, and is accomplished by applying 
laws of electricity known to your guide but of 
which we as yet have no knowledge, and which 
I could not be intrusted to explain because I 
have only the novice's understanding of elec- 
tricity. When in the natural course of events 
advanced experts come, their guides will reveal 
to them the laws necessary to first take them 
from this world, then develop them into im- 
mortals so similar yet so different from their 
former selves. I cannot give the scientific de- 
tails, but I can write the plain facts as Richard 
tells them to me. He says that your guide 
returns to this earth just once, and that is be- 
fore you lose your hold on life. He has the 
power to make himself invisible. 

The fact that everyone returns once explains 
the statement in the Bible that Christ would 
come again. He has been here a second time 
more than nineteen hundred and fifty years 

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ago to save His soul mate and He will never 
come again. The many people who have 
thought they saw Christ beheld only a vision 
or a materialization. The purposes of the lat- 
ter are several. The person seen is only a 
creation due to a guide using a law of elec- 
tricity as yet unknown to science here, never a 
real human being. The most important use 
of materialization is probably to make the on- 
lookers believe their relatives or friends are 
lying here lifeless, whereas in reality they have 
been taken up by their guides. In due time 
all this deception or illusion will disappear and 
the guide will show himself and his modus 
operandi. Then all mourning will be replaced 
by rejoicing; only, naturally, we shall miss our 
friends and their companionship. The world 
is gradually being educated up to such a state 
of enlightenment that it can be intrusted with 
secrets. Why we have not always known 
these we do not quite understand, only the 
Bible says God moves in a mysterious way His 
wonders to reveal. Some people who have 

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seen their lost friends materialize, believe the 
spirit of the latter returns in this form. But 
this phenomenon, like so many of the others, is 
simply a step in progress leading up to a 
knowledge of the guide. They are all to illus- 
trate what he can do, that is, what miraculous 
power he has at his command and how he uses 
it for a purpose. The world must become fa- 
miliar with the idea of the guide; who he is, 
where he is, and what is his real reason for 
being. It may be that our guides have the 
power to come back to this world and take us 
up bodily. That would be the simplest and 
most straightforward method of preserving us 
intact. We are sure to have some proof, for 
one discovery will lead to another as in the 
case of telegraphy which we first made prac- 
tical; then came the telephone, a step in ad- 
vance, to be followed by wireless telegraphy 
which might seem almost supernatural if we 
did not know it was done by law and required 
the co-operation of man and some wireless 
stations to operate it. 

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I am impressed with the increasing number 
of both men and women who hear the voice of 
their guides. Some tell me that the voice 
speaks to them out loud, while others hear it 
only mentally, as is my own experience. If I 
were the only person hearing a voice my case 
might appear more unusual, but the voice has 
been with us since the earliest records. Moses 
heard it. Socrates says in his writings: "I 
have heard this since a child, a kind of voice 
coming to me." Joan of Arc was led by it. 
It has always been the voice of their guides 
only they did not know the fact. Today we 
are ready to comprehend the source of that 
voice which is coming to the world at large. 
It will soon be no longer a mystery to anyone 
who hears it or does not. From present pros- 
pects it is only a matter of time when the whole 
world will hear it intelligently and unmoved. 

The guidance in itself whether conscious or 
otherwise, is not the most important part of 
your owning a guide. The point is that he 
must never lose track of you for an instant in 

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order that when the moment of your depar- 
ture from this world is approaching, he will be 
on hand and alert to care for you and preserve 
that immortal spark of life. 

Richard says, as is the truth, that it is nat- 
urally somewhat impossible for me to believe 
what he tells of our going from this world. It 
savors too much of the Arabian Nights, fairy 
tales or magic. He does not try to force me 
to believe, declaring' that if it is the truth in 
time it will be confirmed. But he refers me to 
our faith in the Scriptures. We are asked to 
contemplate the immaculate conception of 
Christ, and to note His many miracles as well 
as those of His numerous followers. If we 
are prepared to accept all these wonders why 
not that of our guides taking us from this life 
by laws of which we are as yet in ignorance? 
He makes me go deeply into the subject and 
reason it out little by little, using my knowl- 
edge of the material man here with his many 
complications, and not permitting my imag- 
ination to lead me astray. I know that the 

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mind, soul and spirit depend absolutely for 
their existence upon the brain which is part of 
the body. They have no substance whatso- 
ever, are neither gas nor vapors, therefore can 
not be reached except through the material 
human body. 

The up-to-date scientist no longer puts any 
faith in Darwin's theory of the origin of man. 
He repudiates the idea of our evolution from 
the lower animal life. He does not attempt 
to explain our beginning, as there is no proof 
and he rejects theories. 

In this world evolution ceases with the hu- 
man race; the various stages of development 
have been leading up to that achievement. If 
this earth and its inhabitants should continue 
indefinitely, it is not probable that there would 
ever be another stage in evolution here differ- 
ing from man as he does from the lower ani- 
mal. Man can not be surpassed but evolution 
can not stop until he is perfected, and that is 
not possible in a negative world such as this. 
His mechanism is so delicate that it cannot 

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withstand the hard conditions and was not in- 
tended to. He begins to fail in middle life, 
his changing eyesight being one of the first 
symptoms of decay. This is followed by a 
steady decline. Therefore the great force, 
whether God, as we like to believe, or the nat- 
ural laws step in and fill the breach by taking 
man out of this universe and into some environ- 
ment where it is possible for other laws which 
do not exist here to be brought to bear and 
act upon him, developing him into the 
immortal. 



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CHAPTER II 



THE NEXT STEP 



After taking you beyond the environs of 
this sphere, a long and perilous journey to 
anyone but an immortal, your guide begins the 
process of development. You must be 
brought up to his standards. He knows just 
how to go about his task and how to apply the 
laws at his command, which are natural ones, 
chemistry and electricity coming into play. 
If you are an infant or a child, you must be 
advanced to girlhood ; if aged, your youth must 
be renewed. If beautiful it is not difficult to 
perfect and refine your face and form ; if plain 
or seemingly hopelessly ugly, little by little 
you are altered until no trace of your home- 
liness remains, and yet you retain your orig- 
inal personality, an idealized self, body and 

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mind. The latter has been growing in force 
and capacity as the former increased its 
strength. When the old brain cells have grad- 
ually been transformed into living dynamos of 
limitless resources, you have burst the earthly 
chrysalis and emerged an immortal with the 
miraculous power and possibilities foreshad- 
owed in the Bible. Your guide does not need 
to explain or set you straight, your mind, the 
outcome of your transformed brain, now knows 
every fact and detail as clearly as he does. 
You are an immortal and ready to assume your 
new responsibilities of guiding and immortal- 
izing your charge. Your guide now leaves 
you, as you have set him free to enter heaven 
and forget that there ever existed such a nega- 
tive planet as this one we inhabit. 

How do you know where to find the new 
little boy who is your charge? You must be 
ready to watch and direct his mind from the 
moment of his birth. By the same means that 
your guide knew how to locate you, that is, by 
your newly developed brain, a perfected organ 

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that no one can ever possess here. How does 
the clairvoyant often tell exactly where some 
lost or hidden article can be found? Through 
her guide's controlling her mind and communi- 
cating with her. He knows everything, past, 
present and future, if there is any reason to 
do so. That power which enables him to pen- 
etrate the future, enables him to discover you 
at birth, an embryo girl who is perfection for 
him. There may be innumerable ones, but 
there is just one he chooses. He knows how 
to measure your possibilities, and to find they 
will meet his requirements in every way. In 
the same manner because of your limitless 
mental power, you pick out the infant at birth 
who is dependent upon you for a future eter- 
nal existence. He will be like yourself in col- 
oring and personal traits, temperament and 
general makeup, only he will be strong and 
masculine. These rules hold good in the case 
of a person whose mind was never normal here. 
As soon as such an individual becomes an im- 
mortal he grasps what his life had been on 

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earth, but it does not affect him in any way, 
he has progressed beyond it now. 

Hour by hour and day by day you watch 
every thought and action of your charge and 
note how the system of prophecy is indicating 
what is to be his destiny, which is a perfectly 
natural one, the result of the innumerable 
forces at work on all sides, such as birth, 
beauty, breeding, education, health, wealth and 
disposition; outside influences and incidents 
over which no one has any control, earthquakes, 
cloudbursts, volcanoes and other natural hap- 
penings not to mention the numerous lesser 
and more trivial daily occurrences that come 
into everybody's life. 

In looking the destiny of the world and each 
individual born into it squarely in the face, 
you must perforce become a fatalist because 
you see clearly that there are so many and 
varied forces bearing down upon you from all 
directions that you could not possibly cope 
with them all. As your guide knows your 
whole life before it unfolds it could not change 

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one iota. This makes you realize that you are 
not really a free will agent, and yet to a cer- 
tain extent you are, because you always do pre- 
cisely what you would have done were you 
free. For instance,, no one is above tempta- 
tion if it chances to come in the right form, 
even Christ yielded when it came fo Him. 
Satan tried to tempt when he pointed out what 
should be Christ's if He would become his 
votary. The Evil One was not so clever as 
he is painted or he would have known how fu- 
tile were any such attempts to beguile Jesus. 
What did He care for earthly possessions? 
But when He came upon the money changers 
desecrating His Father's Temple, there was 
the way to reach His vulnerable spot. He 
took a scourge of thongs and whipped the mis- 
creants, forgetting that they were His fellow- 
men, sinful and deluded, to be sure, and also 
that He was preaching, "Peace on earth, good 
will toward men," and that He could have 
reached and reformed by kindness, that would 
have been the Christ-like way. 

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Your destiny is largely shaped by your char- 
acter. If you are of the strong type you over- 
come the obstacles in your path; if weak, you 
get around them the easiest way possible and 
take all the inevitable consequences. 

When your charge has fulfilled his destiny 
here you are ready to save him by means of 
the same laws used by your guide in saving 
you, and to thus free yourself . You are then 
ready to enter heaven and join your waiting 
guide who is your soul mate for eternity. 
Your charge is now an immortal and proceeds 
to find his charge who is to develop into his 
own soul mate. 

This fulfilling of the law of immortaliza- 
tion goes on ceaselessly, like the system of 
prophecy, whether we here below know it or 
not. It is something of an endless chain, and 
illustrates the law of the exception to the excep- 
tion, it has no exception. Every child born 
into this life is born to eternity. The law of 
procreation is imperfect, that is, cannot al- 

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ways be depended upon, it has its exceptions. 
Not all married people produce a family of 
children, or even one, though they may greatly 
desire that end as should all normal men and 
women. This is due to the fact of our uni- 
verse being an imperfect one, subject to both 
negative and positive laws. The law of im- 
mortalization, on the contrary, is a perfect law, 
and is fulfilled after the human being has left 
this world and its negative laws. When be- 
yond these earthly confines, presto! the great 
system of prophecy has become one of positive 
indicators only and the results are what one 
would imagine; everything in the composition 
of the individual just arrived which is negative, 
begins to yield to the touch of the immortal 
and the new woman is begun. Gradually she 
is developed into the perfect being. The 
height of evolution is reached. No stage be- 
yond the immortal is possible, he might expand 
along certain lines if desired, that is, if of les- 
ser intellectual attainments than his associates, 

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he might reach greater heights, which would 
be a personal matter. There is no distinct 
race apart and differing from the immortals, 
mentally or physically. 



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CHAPTER III 

INTRODUCTION TO HEAVEN 

Life on the new planet shapes itself in uni- 
son with the different conditions existing 
there. Changeless brilliant light, perfect cli- 
mate and weather, eternal springtime, are 
some of the assets, as are no need for sleep, 
rest or food, elaborate household belongings 
or apparel. Simplicity is the keynote. What 
is the sum total of it all? Unalloyed happi- 
ness. There being laws which abolish food 
requirements, no tilling of the soil would fol- 
low, especially as there could be found no soil 
to till, what answers to it is a firm, soft, solid 
composition always remaining the same, like 
a carpet. 

The immortal has the power to create won- 
ders of all kinds from chemicals. We recall 

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that God is supposed to have made man from 
the earth. We know he is originated and de- 
veloped by chemical processes from germs of 
protoplasm. There is no limit to the possibil- 
ities of chemistry here, therefore what might 
we look for in a far more wonderful world? 
All sorts of articles and devices are the work 
of the superman, the result of processes un- 
known and somewhat incomprehensible to us 
mortals because of the various laws we cannot 
learn arising from the different natural en- 
vironment. Man can be as busy or as idle as 
he chooses. He usually prefers a little of 
both. 

Music is one of the noticeable features of 
the new life, and is far away from our accepted 
art. The volume of sound is so much greater 
and clearer owing to the different atmospheric 
conditions. All audiences for the music fes- 
tivals and similar entertainments convene in 
the open, there being no necessity for audito- 
riums. Music has become a great science, and 
its devotees are enabled to make it a more 

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melodious medium while not interfering with 
its harmony. Through the construction, of a 
variety of wind instruments suggested by our 
Aeolian harps, enchanting strains of music fill 
the air. The human voice, too, soars beyond 
our conception. 

As the temperature never varies only light 
clothing is required ; and as the human form is 
not looked at askance, the feet, arms and neck 
are always bare. Complete freedom from any 
desire for display prevails. The immortal is 
so beautiful naturally, that any attempt at 
artificial adornment would detract from the 
perfection of face and figure. Simplicity 
reigns supreme in the home also. Symmetry 
and gorgeous coloring mark both exterior and 
interior. Life is mostly out of doors. Each 
group of associates come together in public 
centers, on the order of parks, resembling a 
community with tastes and interests in com- 
mon. They are clans brought together 
through soul mates, former charges and rela- 
tives, all being especially congenial and drawn 

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closely together because of past and present 
associations. These clans spread out almost 
indefinitely. One man, his soul mate and her 
former charge with his soul mate, together 
with the girl who acted as the man's guide, 
with her soul mate, form a nucleus which ex- 
tends in all directions. 

While caste is a part of life there, it is so 
natural that it is not noticeable and would 
hardly come under that heading. As we 
choose our companions here to a certain extent 
because we are thrown with them and on ac- 
count of their congeniality, so we should in 
the other world, only there it is all settled for 
us primarily through the medium of the soul 
mate. We are entirely satisfied with our lot 
and have no ambitions. Former royalty and 
money magnates live in no very different fash- 
ion from the humble peasant or laborer of this 
world, who finds there the conditions are per- 
fection for him. But the soul mate of the 
leader in this world would have belonged to 
the same status of society while here as he him- 

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self, whether king, poet or scientist. You are 
still yourself and would therefore be capable 
of recognizing that your partner for eternity 
is just what she should be to satisfy you. The 
immortal does not hanker after the fleshpots 
of Egypt, which would be the outcome of a 
negative law. Only positive laws can ever 
exist there. 

When we have become immortals we nat- 
urally should like to search out the heroes and 
heroines of our former life. If we have been 
music lovers or perhaps composers we want to 
know the great men whose works here we 
studied and loved. If we were of a literary 
trend or perhaps an artist, we wonder how 
Shakespeare or Raphael would seem when an 
immortal. We journey through the new 
world more easily than we can here, as we have 
within us the power of aerial locomotion and 
no need for an automobile. If we delighted in 
the works of Beethoven, Wagner or perhaps 
Mendelssohn, what would be our sensations 
if we had access to their immortal composi- 

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tions? Some of us may be close neighbors to 
a community of the notables of this universe. 
We have occasionally wondered who would be 
the foremost among the heavenly host, and if 
we have chanced to be numbered among the 
distinguished minority in this sphere we may 
find ourselves to the fore in the next. 

As we all know where we belong when we 
reach that other planet, it is an easy matter to 
locate our special community center, and we 
are pretty sure to find a number of persons 
near and dear to us awaiting our arrival, ready 
to extend a joyous welcome which we are pre- 
pared to most thoroughly appreciate. 



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CHAPTER IV 



THE REAL IMMORTAL 



The immortal is an American or as nearly- 
one as the new stage in evolution permits. 
The reason for this is that the Americans are 
the most progressive of all the peoples of our 
globe. The language of the new world is 
English and always has been. It is to be the 
only one here. The other nations will grad- 
ually drop their distinctive tongues as they 
come into closer relations with America. This 
universe is to become Americanized because 
our republic is setting the pace toward a finer 
and more highly developed race of men and 
women, largely through educational and 
hygienic systems and reforms. The more ad- 
vanced citizens who study and perceive the 
truth of laws affecting their fellow men, and 
who are always in the minority, are constantly 

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teaching in one way or another these truths 
to the ignorant majority. When the evils pro- 
duced by bad habits become too harmful, the 
far-sighted government takes matters into its 
own hands. Prohibition is one of the big 
steps in the right direction which will grad- 
ually show results as the opposing faction dis- 
appears from the face of the earth. The ban 
on smoking will arrive one of these days to be 
followed by a cessation in tobacco production, 
the soil being put to better uses. As soon as 
a sufficient number of people have learned the 
dangers of salt, that too, will be tabooed. Few 
people know that inorganic, or table salt, is a 
mineral poison and that its consumers are daily 
shortening their lives. They are ignorant of 
the difference between organic and inorganic 
salt, that we need the former for our well-being 
and can get it in nearly all natural foods. The 
salt habit, which is carried by most people to 
excess, is acquired through ignorant parents, 
but in time that fault will be rectified as they 
discover the truth. 

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Numerous other vices and blunders due to 
ignorance and selfishness will disappear as 
mankind continues to improve mentally, mor- 
ally and physically, studying life from the big 
point of view instead of laying so much stress 
on the personal. The demand today is for 
liberty for the individual; but as the latter 
broadens he will become more willing to sink 
his own personal desires when he realizes that 
what is liberty for him is injury for others. 
He may be strong enough to withstand the 
temptation which engulfs the weak, but in time 
he will grasp that what is hurting the other 
man is retarding the progress and interfering 
with the welfare of civilization which includes 
his own self. 

The nearer man comes to the sensible ideal 
the closer he resembles the immortal. We find 
the ape species the nearest approach of lower 
animal life to man, but the greatest difference 
between man and the immortal lies in the cells 
of the brain, though some of the other func- 
tions show decided variations. If the Ameri- 

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can continues to progress as rapidly as he has 
since the founding of his nation, in the near 
future he will compare favorably in many 
ways with the standards of the immortals, but 
no matter how greatly he improves he can 
never become one here. 

It is difficult to grasp the idea that your 
guide is coming to the spot where you are to 
take you bodily with him, but we must recall 
that this is not a new truth. The disciples on 
the third day sought Christ and rolled aside the 
stone where He had been laid to find Him 
gone, thus illustrating the law that each one of 
us is borne away at once by our guide, also that 
Christ foreshadows that each one of us has a 
material savior, He being our Savior mentally. 
We have been steadily advancing toward this 
truth. His appearance afterward to His dis- 
ciples was not Himself in reality but material- 
ization. He was risen. 

The Spiritualists today believe we shall have 
material proof of our guides in this world. 

We have to regard the whole subject of the 
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psychic as a movement beginning in the Old 
Testament and leading up to a knowledge of 
the guide and his purpose. There was the 
handwriting on the wall, the interpretation of 
dreams, the soothsayers, the girl with the spirit 
of divination whom Christ healed of some mal- 
ady. She was a clairvoyant of Biblical days 
and the medium of the present is she modern- 
ized and brought up to date, probably more 
enlightened. 

We must view the whole matter from the 
vantage ground of progress, paying no atten- 
tion to some seeming incongruities. The 
many psychic phenomena serve to show us that 
we are influenced by and in communication 
with not spirits but living men and women 
each with a mind, soul and spirit due to a brain 
more wonderful than we can imagine. Your 
guide is the conveyance who alone has the 
knowledge and power to waft you into eternity. 
If the time shall come when he will appear in 
person, our doubts will cease. But suppose he 
did not materialize to our sight, only bore his 

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soul mate away, we should feel that he was 
near or had the power to take her. So long as 
there is no definite proof of a living guide, it 
is not easy for us to change our ideas on the 
subject, but we must be on the alert for inno- 
vations and keep our minds open to conviction. 
The Spiritualists have had what would seem 
like so many mental revelations, and are likely 
to continue doing so because they are the re- 
ligious denomination which progresses. Of 
all the hundred and ninety-seven and more 
sects founded on the teachings of the Bible, 
they are the only one to bring new ideas to 
the world. A few of the others, the Episco- 
palians, Presbyterians and Methodists among 
them, have in some instances broadened. The 
Baptists no longer believe that only their ad- 
herents are saved through immersion, now 
holding that any professing Christian is re- 
deemed. The Presbyterians once advocated 
the Calvinistic dogma that everyone to enter 
the kingdom of heaven must be christened, 
even the new born infant. They no longer do 

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so. But not one has put forth a totally new 
fundamental truth. There is nothing mate- 
rial about any of their doctrines, it is all spirit- 
ual. Progress within the last fifty or seventy- 
five years has been steadily pointing toward a 
flesh and blood force behind the spiritual, and 
today we are introducing the guide as that 
force, old as creation. 

The doctors, scientists and research workers 
in all their wonderful investigations have 
never come upon a soul or a spirit other than 
the usual mental attributes although they have 
found that we are composed of millions of 
minute cells each striving for the highest pos- 
sible development, also that there are numerous 
and important chemical processes going on 
within us about which the average person 
knows nothing although his life depends on 
them. He is in reality something of a living 
chemical laboratory. To study the human 
organism and the ills to which it is heir, the 
one hundred million foundation has been do- 
nated, but if half of it had been designed to 

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erect suitable housing accommodations in New 
York City the other half would suffice for in- 
vestigating the abnormal human being as the 
basic cause of disease and a large proportion 
of the resultant abnormalities are due to the 
present unsanitary living conditions prevail- 
ing everywhere, unheeded to a certain extent, 
though the health authorities are always trying 
to cope with them. 

Among the crying needs of the city are suit- 
able hotels for women, young and old, and for 
men too ; what we term the working classes, in- 
cluding students, teachers, authors, artists, 
musicians and other intellectuals, every one of 
whom needs a comfortable room with bath and 
good food. This innovation would revolu- 
tionize New York's health statistics. The old 
couplet runs: 

"Joy and comfort and repose 
Slam the door on the doctor's nose." 

All the menacing tenement house districts 
should be wiped out and rebuilt, conforming 
to the latest hygienic and humanitarian ideas. 

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Cleanliness is the first safeguard against dis- 
ease, and the next is a knowledge of food 
science along with the other aids, fresh air, 
sunshine and recreation. Fifty millions would 
regenerate the masses if scientifically applied, 
to live correctly should be made easier for them 
by the experts who know how, and by the phil- 
anthropists who are glad to share their riches 
with their less fortunate brethren whose talents 
cannot expand under the adverse influences of 
pinching poverty. 

The real immortal develops the power and 
general makeup in which we have been lack- 
ing. He is reconstructed to last intact for- 
ever. This could happen only when the laws 
controlling him and his environment were posi- 
tive and perfect. That he performs so-called 
miracles there is no doubt, but it is through 
his command of laws. Some of them may be 
mental, that is, he knows the limitless power of 
mind over matter when you possess a dynamic 
brain. We, with our fragile brains so easily 
disturbed can hardly credit this. But we do 

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not have to, all that is required of us is to make 
the most of life as we find it here. 

Some psychologists try to explain away all 
psychic phenomena, averring that such are 
caused by the workings of the mind and the 
nervous system; all of which is interesting but 
falls short of the truth because they assume too 
much, building on what they do not know. 
They conclude the mind has unlimited possibil- 
ities, where they err. It is not probable that 
they have had any notable psychic experiences, 
but to one who has their line of reasoning is 
very inadequate. 



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THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE OF PROPHECY 

This system was called the language of 
psychology in the first book of this series be- 
cause it is so largely mental and symbolical, 
but it is more, a great science working cease- 
lessly, always foretelling the destiny of each 
one of us whether we are conscious of it or not. 
It can be studied somewhat as if it were a real 
language. You cannot prevent it from acting 
any more than you can other natural laws. It 
has probably been in existence from the crea- 
tion of man, as it is in relation to him that it 
is interpreted by the guides, though it is con- 
stantly prophesying the world's fate as well 
as that of its peoples. We recall that in the 
Bible the prophets wrote of Christ's coming 

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and that He came, though so long afterwards ; 
and that He foretold of His second advent to 
this earth, which prophecy has also been ful- 
filled though unknown to His fellowmen. 
Many other prophecies have come to pass be- 
cause the prophets were inspired by their 
guides who knew the future. They wrote the 
records of the approaching events, of which 
we read today, and of their fulfillment. In 
Joel it says : "And your sons and your daugh- 
ters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream 
dreams, and your young men shall see visions." 
Daniel read the writing on the wall which none 
but he could interpret. The prophet Isaiah 
had visions. All of these manifestations are 
going on today the same as in those ancient 
of days, only we understand them now or are 
beginning to. The guide and the science of 
prophecy together with natural laws make 
them clear. 

It is probable that the guides are able to 
perceive and to interpret certain signs and 
symbols of this great system as we here with 

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our imperfect and undeveloped brains never 
can, and that this is the secret of their being 
able to make the clairvoyants so often tell of 
future events. The science of prophecy is 
greater and more far reaching than we at pres- 
ent have any conception of. A smattering 
has always been known to us under the name 
of superstition. My guide is straightening 
out our ideas on the subject, as they are often 
erroneous. We have regarded anything on 
the order of superstition as weak and beneath 
our consideration, but Richard has taught me 
that it is the basis of a psychological and mirac- 
ulous system that governs the material in this 
world and probably in the intermediate state 
where the guides must remain for a while, and 
where their developed and seemingly mirac- 
ulous brains give them the faculty of compre- 
hending and using the system. 

When you have learned the science and how 
to apply it here you grasp that it is very or- 
derly in its construction, depending upon its 
being classified as negative and positive, and 

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upon its correct psychological application. 
You observe as you study its intricacies that 
some of the current superstitions are wrong 
because they are the result of ignorance of the 
principles of the science. But you are sur- 
prised to find that as a rule the superstitions 
are right and must have been taught by the 
guides to their charges here, all the time lead- 
ing up to the present revelation and its future 
expansion. 

How the science originated we shall un- 
doubtedly know some day. We see how it 
might spread out through some one associating 
certain objects with a noticeable event and 
watching whether they brought failure or suc- 
cess, as for instance a star, a horseshoe, a rose, 
certain numbers and colors. I went to an of- 
fice the other day on a matter of business, the 
lady in charge wore a red dress; as I had 
known her for some time I felt at liberty to 
comment on her appearance so I remarked: 
"I like you in that gown, it is a good omen." 

"I wonder if that is why I enjoyed myself 
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so much on my vacation this summer? I wore 
it every morning." 

"It was not the reason," I answered, "but 
an indication that something you liked was 
coming to you. Sometimes the omen is 
quickly fulfilled, and this seems to have been 
a plain case." 

It is not always such easily recognized in- 
dicators as symbols, numbers and colors that 
compose the system, but things more intangible 
which you learn to interpret as you get a 
broader and deeper insight into the subject. 
You commence to sense then how you can use 
its subtle intricacies if you wish to foresee for 
your own edification or to prophesy in order 
to assist other people. 

Such a good illustration and not at all com- 
plicated came to me recently. A group of 
five ladies asked me to tell their fortune by 
cards. I explained to them that I was not a 
fortune teller and had no psychic powers, but 
that I had learned the system of prophecy, 
which anyone can do, and that I would spread 

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out the cards and interpret what they indicated 
to me. This I did separately for each one 
laying down nine cards every time. Each dis- 
play differed from the others. I read the vari- 
ous meanings and as the days went by I 
watched to see if they fulfilled themselves. 
One young lady who was engaged to be mar- 
ried was eager to know of her possible mar- 
riage. Her cards numbered so many hearts 
and such auspicious ones including the nine 
spot, but not a single diamond. I told her 
there was unlimited love but no money, which 
she confirmed. Her fiance is poor and his 
business prospects do not warrant marriage. 
This is still the case so far as I know, a new 
fortune may disclose a happier fate. 

Another girl's cards told a better story. 
She too, was engaged. As I dealt for her 
along came the queen of hearts and some good 
diamonds, indications of both love and money. 
She left New York, going home to be married. 
An odd incident was a queen of clubs in her 
layout. I told her that indicated some wom- 

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an would cause her trouble or annoyance, but 
there were other good clubs foretelling that it 
would all come out right. She confided to me 
that the threatening lady was her mother who 
strongly objected to the man of her choice be- 
cause he was a Catholic, but as he was a fine 
man and a doctor, she felt sure her mother 
would yield in time for the wedding if not 
before. 

The third lady wanted money, she was sure 
of her husband's devotion. The king of hearts 
appeared, her devoted husband, but next to 
turn up was the king of clubs, a negative 
omen. The only diamond was an unlucky 
number. I learned a few days ago that the 
husband, the king of hearts, had been dismissed 
by his employer, the king of clubs, and that 
money was running low, the unlucky diamond. 

The fourth lady was a business woman, her 
fortune did not give much promise, her cards 
were mostly dark, and the hearts and diamonds 
not good. It is apparently fulfilling itself, as 
she soon after lost her position and has had 

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difficulty in securing a new one which is poor 
with a small salary and almost no prospects 
at present. 

The fifth one was having financial difficul- 
ties and was anxious. Her cards were most 
reassuring, among them three diamonds in- 
cluding the seven spot, so good. I prophesied 
gold for her. As time passed and it did not 
drop into her purse she appealed to me for 
that money I had promised her. I warned 
her to possess her soul in patience and it would 
come. And it did. Quite unexpectedly she 
received an offer to sell out her business ad- 
vantageously which she accepted with conse- 
quent gold in her purse. 

Undoubtedly the science of prophecy is to 
take an important place in the affairs of the 
world as it becomes known, studied and ap- 
plied by scientists who will develop it as they 
have other great sciences, such as mathematics, 
physics and chemistry. Great oaks from lit- 
tle acorns grow, and to be equipped with a 
knowledge of a system that tells in advance 

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what the future holds in store, or at least gives 
some idea, will be of inestimable value, just as 
the daily reports from the weather bureau are 
today, often saving and preventing financial 
loss, to say nothing of warning people in mak- 
ing and carrying out their usual plans. 

So much has been written concerning the 
psychology of numbers and colors. The 
Scriptures often mention seven as a signifi- 
cant numeral: the seven seals, the seven- 
branched candlesticks of the Children of Israel, 
the seven days that constitute the week, and 
other examples; but rarely can you find any 
singling out of nine, the foremost of all. And 
no writer, ancient or modern, makes the sys- 
tematic division of colors into negative and 
positive, and whether their use leads to failure 
or success. Pink has been called the emotional 
color, it is warm and capable of strong affec- 
tions. Red is spoken of as passionate and in- 
tense, the color of blood. Blue is spiritual. 
One author declares the highest color is cream 
white, the Christ color. This might be so re- 

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garded from the spiritual point of view, but 
red is the most successful. Pink derives some 
of its especially auspicious character from be- 
ing a combination of red and white. 

The many books written on the subject of 
the psychic, both for and against, are all more 
or less valuable in their way, being steps in 
progress leading up to the truth. They have 
served as food for the ignorant masses who are 
longing for enlightenment on the subject of 
life hereafter. They all base their writings, 
to some extent, upon an imaginary living spirit 
with a power to rush into some one else's body, 
or to clothe itself in some sort of an ethereal 
body, taking their ideas, no doubt, from what 
they gather from the Bible and other ancient 
literature. But that wonderful book was writ- 
ten by people and for people who lived in the 
dark ages, and we are now emerging into the 
light and must interpret it from an up to date 
standpoint. 

We have studied the human body so minute- 
ly in these modern times that we know there 

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does not exist any such thing as a spirit that 
is separable from the body, it is entirely de- 
pendent on the brain for expression. 

There are no such things as thought vibra- 
tions about which so much is written, as 
thoughts have no substance and therefore can 
not vibrate. There are atmospheric vibra- 
tions and electric vibrations. Thoughts are 
things from a psychological or symbolical view- 
point because they form an important link in 
the system of prophecy, but that is not due 
to any vibrations, it is simply that they are 
part of the science just as fractions are in the 
study of arithmetic. Mental telepathy is not 
caused by thought vibrations, as alleged by 
some writers, but by the guides of the persons 
involved in communicating. 

You now and again hear the statement that 
a thought sent out lives always and bears fruit. 
This is true if you speak the thought to others 
who repeat it, or if you write it down that it 
may be read by those interested in its message. 
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mentioning it to anyone, it never goes any 
farther to affect the world or any living per- 
son present or future. There is no possible 
way of its continuing unless you, the force be- 
hind it, give it reality by making it known. 
Occasionally several people have the same 
thought, which is nothing remarkable as we 
are all working out our lives on somewhat sim- 
ilar mental and physical lines. It happens 
quite frequently that a patent is submitted to 
the Patent Office by more than one inventor 
at the same date. It seems to be accidental. 

The various writings are all teaching the 
world to be good, and that is greatly to be ex- 
tolled; but their authors do not base their les- 
sons on the human body and the conditions of 
every day life as gathered from the latest re- 
sults of scientific research, experiment and 
practical observation. Therefore their imag- 
inings are hit or miss and not founded on the 
system of life here, so are without weight but 
always so praiseworthy in their efforts to bring 
something of value to us as yet so much in the 

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dark. The possibility of the soul mate is 
touched upon, but it is subservient to your be- 
ing worthy of your affinity. So little is ac- 
cording to law, so much is left to your own 
self and your power or chance to secure or 
achieve what you want. Had our entering 
this life been left to ourselves, a good many of 
us would not have arrived ; but we had nothing 
to do with it any more than we have to enter- 
ing into the next one. A great law protects 
us. We are now getting away from these 
vain imaginings, rising, as it were, from the 
flotsam and jetsam obscuring the real state of 
affairs. We are starting in with the human 
body here, from the law which produced it, 
studying it in accordance with the best scien- 
tific knowledge on the subject, pinning our 
faith to the known facts and drawing our con- 
clusions from these when we are forced to con- 
tinue our investigations into the realm of un- 
certainty that surrounds that human body after 
it has ceased to perform its natural functions 
here. As we know that the instant the breath 

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of life leaves the body all the mental attributes 
such as mind, soul, spirit, love, conscience, 
memory, intuition stop; we see that if we are 
to preserve these qualities we must preserve 
the body. We know that this is beyond our 
power for any indefinite period, consequently 
we must trust it to some force as yet unknown 
to us in material shape. We believe that great 
laws exist because we are discovering and ap- 
plying them continually, but we also know that 
these laws do not produce results unaided, they 
require man with his intellect, ingenuity and 
physical resources to apply them to useful 
ends. This makes us prone to conclude that 
there must be a living impetus which takes the 
body still alive from this world to some other. 
We build our faith in its immortality on the 
teachings of the Bible mostly. 

We are told that chemists in their labora- 
tories can produce the life germ of protoplasm. 
Let us accept that statement. Suppose they 
could go farther and develop it into a human 
being, it would be a new man or woman and 

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not you or I or any one else who has ever lived. 
Therefore if some supernatural power could 
create life chemically in some other sphere, that 
would not help us, each of whom wants to live 
always and keep his or her own personality, 
which is the meaning of the Bible as we in- 
terpret it. 

We have no proof at present of any living 
force beyond this earth which can take us, still 
alive, to some other existence; but we have a 
mass of psychic phenomena, increasing in vol- 
ume and clearness and this is what is opening 
our eyes today. New experiences differ in 
character. One of the most convincing fea- 
tures of them all are their prophecies. No 
matter what any skeptical psychologists may 
declare as to the supermind's ability to foresee 
and to foretell, we feel sure that it is the living 
force outside this world and not an unusual 
mind which is foretelling to so many of us the 
events of the future that come to pass affecting 
us personally and sometimes the whole world. 
It is only imagination and not any fact that 

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can be proved to explain psychic phenomena 
by asserting that our minds have the facility 
to look forward anywhere from five minutes 
to five thousand years and discern the events 
of greater or less import which are on the way. 
That it was prophesied Christ was to come cen- 
turies before He appeared is in line with the 
prophecies of less weight being made daily by 
people who have some form of psychic power, 
many of whom are not professionals. 



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CHAPTER VI 



MIRACLES 



We cannot perform miracles when left to 
ourselves, but we can be made the instruments 
of our living guides and accomplish the same 
ends. A well known man of science states 
that the psychic phenomena of today are 
"modern miracles." 

I had read of a theosophist being able to 
create a rose by her occult power but nothing 
on the miraculous order had ever come to my 
personal notice. This I had been thinking re- 
cently, conscious of the mental reservation that 
I was open to conviction. Soon afterwards I 
met a lady who related how a miracle had 
come to her. She had been paying a visit to 
a clairvoyant to obtain news in regard to an 
important matter. The result had been quite 

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remarkable because of so many truths the me- 
dium was able to tell her both of her past af- 
fairs and what was to come. When the lady- 
rose to leave the clairvoyant said to her, "I 
want to give you a souvenir to take with you." 
She placed a glass on the table and in it a 
spray of syringa began to materialize and was 
soon perfected. An added emphasis to the 
strangeness of this occurrence was the fact that 
the season was late autumn, while syringas 
blossom in the spring. 

The lady accepted the flower, carried it home 
and placed it in a glass of water where it re- 
mained for some time, gradually fading. 

Another lady whose word I would trust im- 
plicitly related that a friend who had passed 
away returned at times in a materialized form, 
looking unchanged. She could put out her 
hand and feel his apparently solid flesh, also 
converse with him. That the apparition was 
due to one or more laws of electricity she had 
proof through the fact that one evening a mem- 
ber of her family chanced to descend the stair- 

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way adjoining the room in which she sat, the 
door open. As he came within the radius of 
the electric force at work, he was struck in the 
head as if by a bolt and thrown down so that 
he cried out from the pain and the shock. A 
dark spot marked his forehead, caused by the 
contact of the electric current. 

This phenomenon might be considered a 
miracle. It was undoubtedly the work of the 
lady's guide, showing the way in which mate- 
rialization is produced. Similar cases are com- 
mon and are steps in progress to teach us the 
meaning of materialization and to draw our 
own conclusions as to what use such phenom- 
ena might be put. Happenings of this nature 
strike us as peculiar because we are still so 
much in the dark as to their real significance, 
but as we grow more enlightened and begin 
to get substantial proofs, the clouds obscuring 
our vision will pass and big truths appear on 
the horizon. 

Christ knew the laws that we as yet do not. 
It is generally supposed that He performed 

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miracles through His divinity, but it is more 
likely that He employed the same methods as 
do our guides who come into a knowledge of 
these through their immortality. There are 
numerous instances of miracles in the Old 
Testament, but they have been brought more 
forcibly to our notice by Christ as if they were 
to attract our attention by their frequency and 
significance, and were a common and natural 
as well as possible means of producing desired 
ends we had in mind. Today we find them 
when and where least expected. It would be 
a humorous reflection on the sagacity of the 
class of individuals who tell us that the age of 
miracles is past if we waked up some day to 
the proofs that the greatest conceivable mir- 
acle, the passing from this life to immortality, 
has been going on in our midst without ceasing 
unknown to us. 

Whether in the course of time and progress 
miracles will become every day occurrences 
we cannot tell, but we do feel convinced that 
they would be for some special purpose only, 

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as they were always used in the Bible. In 
studying the natural laws we find they serve 
some aim or can be made to do so, and no 
doubt we shall find the same true in the case 
of modern miracles as we become more familiar 
with the' idea of their existence and begin to 
search for such things. They will have to as- 
sume a more definite reality than at present be- 
fore we can vouch for their presence. Richard 
says the law that starts us from this world on 
our journey toward immortality is a so-called 
miracle, but from the standpoint of the guides 
who perform it only the application of a law. 
If we consulted the records of the various 
societies for psychical research we should meet 
with a supply of miracles. The greatest one 
ever coming to my notice is that going on in- 
side my head practically without cessation. I 
cannot fathom it, neither can anyone else. I 
can only believe the manly voice talking to 
me must belong to a masculine reality some- 
where, and if so it is the key to the age-old 
truths we have always wanted to know. It 

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may take time to have the mystery cleared up, 
not only of the voice talking to me but of those 
similar voices heard by so many other men and 
women. Richard says I call it a psychic phe- 
nomenon but he calls it the natural laws coming 
into their own, that they are coming faster and 
faster and we cannot stop their progress. 

What is the greatest and the most practical 
truth gleaned from the Bible? The promise 
of eternal life. That is what we all want, to 
keep our own life intact and to have the lives 
of those dear to us continue always after leav- 
ing this world, which we know we must do. If 
what my mental voice tells me is true, then my 
guide is bringing to us the next greatest truth 
ever known since that of the Bible, namely, 
how we go from this life into eternal life. 

We have progressed so far in a knowledge, 
both scientific and practical, of the human 
body that we can no longer be satisfied with 
the vague idea that there is something we term 
a spirit within us which has no power while we 
are living to free itself from our body and go 

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sailing away to some spiritual realm, but which 
can do so when the body has ceased to be a liv- 
ing force. The Bible was written by people 
and for people who lived in the dark ages and 
we are now emerging into the light, therefore 
it must be interpreted in accordance with the 
expansion and the accumulated knowledge of 
all these centuries. That we should possess 
such a thing as a spirit and not know it we 
find hard to believe since we have now a clear 
comprehension of the real meaning of what 
the word spirit, or spiritual, is, it being a sim- 
ple mental fact and we cannot expand, turn 
or twist it into anything else unless we bring 
our imagination into play. I can think of 
nothing except the mind, the soul and the spirit 
which have no substance, but they have a pow- 
erful living force behind them, the body, and 
to continue they must keep that force behind 
them else they perish. Now the idea is being 
brought to us that they are not allowed to per- 
ish because the body is not, and we are asked 
to have patience when we cannot accept the ex- 

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planation. We must know about a step in 
progress before it can become a material fact. 
We note this in telegraphy, the telephone and 
wireless telegraphy, each one a step in advance 
of the other, and each one seemingly a little 
more miraculous than the other, but all due to 
electricity. 

The science of prophecy is psychological 
fundamentally, but it affects the material. It 
is a science miraculous in character as it cease- 
lessly indicates and foretells our individual 
destiny and that of the world, depending on 
our attitude as we scan and study its prophe- 
cies. In any big national or international 
event, such as the Peace Conference, we can 
read in the happenings and the omens arising 
from the various surrounding conditions and 
influences what the outcome will be and the 
effect on the countries convening, each one 
represented by delegates. We can also make 
the prophecies a personal matter. If all goes 
well, every daily meeting cheerful and friendly, 
with the results aimed at gradually shaping 

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themselves toward the desired end, that state 
of affairs is a good omen auguring well for the 
peace and prosperity of all nations concerned. 
Each one of us may apply the good omen to 
ourself , knowing that the world at peace means 
better conditions for us. The miraculous part 
of it all is emphasized as we observe different 
details indicated by the specific omens, namely, 
numbers, colors and symbols, which are the 
commonest indicators to enter the equation. 
How they chance to arrive and to come true 
is a puzzle, but they do, and the better you 
understand the science the more you see their 
prophetic spirit asserting itself. It seems al- 
most as if they were a supernatural agency at 
work somewhere, but it is probably all due to 
psychological law or laws of which we yet know 
very little, especially their source. We have 
only a couple of sources to choose from, a Di- 
vine Being or the laws of nature. If we be- 
lieve God created the latter, then He would 
be the source, but the only explanation of His 
origin is nature, laws of chemistry. 

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The psychic phenomena are with us always. 
They are being studied and classified as well 
as clarified whenever possible by scientists who 
cannot explain them but who place them in a 
very different category from the ignorant lay- 
man, and who sometimes find a scientific value 
which an untrained observer could not per- 
ceive even if desirous of so doing. 



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CHAPTER VII 



GOD AND CHRIST 



The Father and Son are almost inseparable 
in our thoughts, but when you have learned to 
interpret the Bible from a psychic as well as 
a religious point of view, They have become 
very human. Christ we have always looked 
upon as both human and divine in His nature. 

God is the leader of the other world, heaven 
as we call it, which is another planet similar 
to our own, but operated by such perfect laws 
that it is not easy for us to understand what a 
complete transformation that means. All the 
mystery, the majesty, the aloofness have dis- 
appeared from the real God. We no longer 
stand in awe of Him. In the new life He is 
one of us. Christ says: "My Father is in 
me and I am in you." This we find verified, 

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as it is only a figure of speech, by our all being 
alike. It is a matter of brotherhood, God, 
Christ and ourselves ; the exalted beings are as 
simple and as real as we are, and They always 
have been only we have not known it before. 
Our attitude toward Them is the same as to- 
ward our rulers or leaders here, one of respect 
and admiration. Each one has His strong 
personality, resembling each other but They 
vary in individuality or characteristics, as does 
everyone else, only They stand out more 
markedly through Their always having been 
more perfect than we mortals here. 



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CHAPTER VIII 

SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS 

Richard has put to me a list of queries con- 
cerning the typical guide which are of interest 
but which he does not answer definitely for the 
reason that we are not yet sufficiently advanced 
to need to be conversant with the real state of 
affairs. He tells me that in due time other 
guides will teach their charges all about their 
relations with each other. Some of these in- 
terrogations are as follows: 

Where is your guide while he is leading you 
still living in this world? 

What is his life wherever he may be ? 

What is the exact process by which he con- 
trols you? 

Does he devote his whole time and attention 
to you and to your guidance? 

When a guide reveals himself to his charge, 
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as in my case, does it affect him or his methods 
of guidance in any way? 

Is his task easy, or does it require mental 
or physical exertion? 

Has he any sort of an apparatus of which 
he makes use, or is the process entirely mental? 

Is his present existence agreeable? 

Is his life a solitary one, or does he have com- 
munication or companionship with his fellow 
guides? 

What will happen to you when you leave 
this world? 

How does he immortalize you? 

In what way does your coming affect his 
life? 

Does he leave you as soon as he transforms 
you into an immortal being? 

How does he enter the final world? 

Do you begin at once to guide the infant boy 
who is your charge? 

How do you know who he is? 

When you have guided him through his life 
here and immortalized him will you leave him 

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to perform his duty of guiding his soul mate 
and go to join yours in the heaven of our 
faith? 

How will you find him on your arrival ? 

Richard says these questions bring the whole 
subject of transition before us in a real and 
matter of fact light. Hitherto we have closed 
our eyes to what happens to us on our exit from 
this universe, and yet there must be a next step 
if we are to continue the existence known to 
us. He adds that we are no longer to be al- 
lowed to remain in ignorance of the future, 
and that the truth of the body's going on is 
to be made so emphatic that we shall lose all 
doubts as to such a possibility and accept it as 
a matter of course always remembering that 
the mind, soul and spirit are inseparable from 
the body and go with it wherever it may travel. 
We are to become so accustomed to the idea 
of our staying right on in the flesh, that the 
change from this life when it comes is almost 
like starting on a journey to some unexplored 
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is the easiest way of solving the problem of our 
migration to a new country and the verifica- 
tion will come to us sometime, sooner or later ; 
but if there is some other method that we are 
not yet prepared to know, it will be revealed 
to us when the world has advanced far enough 
to warrant the revelation which may come by 
some sudden act on the part of a guide, or 
slowly working up to it, the culmination of the 
partial revelations of accumulated ages. 

We are bound down by the ignorance and 
traditions of the past which must be overcome 
by the modern proofs of education, science and 
investigation. There is in reality no mystery 
about anything, past or present, we envelop 
facts in mystery because we do not know the 
truth concerning them, and we never can know 
the profound mysteries of the Bible unless they 
are revealed by a supernatural agency know- 
ing all secrets. This force is beginning to ap- 
pear in the shape of the guide, and we are on 
the alert to absorb his revelations and to fol- 
low the trend of his new philosophy. 

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I wish to call attention to the most notice- 
able ideas that I have been made to embody in 
my three books. They are: the purpose of 
the guide, the science of prophecy, and the 
non-existence of any form of mind, soul or 
spirit distinct or apart from the living flesh 
and blood body. 

So far as I know I am the first person who 
has been led to bring to the world the truth 
that you have a guide, a specially constituted 
human being in another existence, who by a 
known law takes you from this life to immor- 
tality. I of myself, know nothing and have 
no psychic powers, but I have grown, after all 
these years, to feel sure that there is a brain, 

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a very powerful one, behind the voice speaking 
to me almost ceaselessly. 

People ask me if the owner of the voice in- 
structs me in the art of making money, the 
ability to get rich quickly seeming to be the 
sure test of a person's powers. If Richard 
directed me to some big money making scheme, 
or if he put unlimited sums of gold coin in my 
purse or top drawer, they would be quite satis- 
fied he was a reality. But, he says, that would 
be more on the order of magic than a sensible 
miracle, and calls my attention to the fact that 
Christ laid no stress on riches, only advising 
those who possessed wealth to give to the poor ; 
also that He said: "The Son of Man hath 
not where to lay His head." These curious 
people become skeptical. They belong to the 
class of doubters who tell you to pray for rain 
or something else you chance to want and when 
it fails to come, scoff at you. 

Richard says it is of no importance whether 
people believe or not in his existence ; he is not 
revealing himself to me to convince anyone, it 

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is simply a matter of progress, a perfectly nat- 
ural sequence to the facts other guides have 
already brought to the world. It will be re- 
called that the woman in the Bible said of 
Christ: "He told me all that ever I did." 
This faculty of knowing everything past or 
future, has always been regarded as a proof 
of Christ's miraculous power, but it is this same 
power that so many clairvoyants use today, 
and is due to their guides. Christ was fore- 
shadowing what we are learning today, that 
your guide has unlimited power and can use 
you as a medium here on earth to transmit 
knowledge from the stage of existence to which 
we are all passing on. The reason for this is 
to educate us up to the point where we shall 
be in a sufficiently enlightened condition of 
mind to be entrusted with further and more 
miraculous developments without alarming us 
or unbalancing our mentality. As soon as we 
have reached the proper stage we shall be 
showed by our guides what an entirely natural 
sequel to our lives here is our going on to the 

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next state. And when we have been altered 
to meet the requirements of heaven, and have 
done our share in fulfilling the law of immor- 
talization for someone else who has fallen to 
our lot, we go naturally to that other planet to 
mingle with our fellow beings, perfected men 
and women, for eternity. There love rules su- 
preme. Love was the psychological force 
which influenced our creation, love is the same 
force that helps us through our lives here by 
the unseen influence of our guides' and plays 
so big a role in the transforming of us into 
immortals. 

We may look forward with a feeling of re- 
lief to the day when the doubts and fears of 
the present as yet unproved belief in a future 
life shall have vanished and material evidence 
is a certainty. This will completely change 
our outlook on life and in many ways our mode 
of living, also our relations with others. 

The fact I would emphasize is that next to 
our own selves our guides are the supreme fac- 
tors in our existence. That we have the abil- 

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ity to lead our lives entirely free from any ad- 
ditional guidance is undoubtedly so as we are 
animals of a higher order and we see those of 
the lower order unguided, so far as we know. 
It is possible that our controllers do not inter- 
fere with us to any great extent, only watching 
our thoughts and actions in case of any need to 
direct us. The main reason for their supervi- 
sion is that they must fulfill the great law of 
immortalization and see to it that we are safely 
conveyed from this world into the next stage 
of existence. When we are developed into 
beings quite able to take care of ourselves and 
someone else besides, then we no longer need 
any protector but become the bona fide free 
will agent. Henceforth and forever we act 
on our own iniative. 

Richard tells me that I am the first human 
being who has ever lived whose guide has re- 
vealed himself in his true colors and explained 
who and what he is and what his purpose. 
Others will follow sooner or later and teach 
us much more regarding the many points 

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which are as yet obscure. The science of 
prophecy will be unfolded for our daily use. 
It is far reaching and opens up a new mental 
survey of life as a whole, as well as of the daily 
routine of each one of us individuals. 

My introduction to this science has opened 
my eyes to the probability of other remarkable 
natural laws or sciences existing all around us 
and affecting our lives without our cognizance. 
Many of them are possibly psychological, some 
may relate to the psychic, as that is the fore- 
most movement thrusting itself upon us today. 
We have penetrated its mysteries so deeply 
now that we could not turn back even if we 
desired, and every new revelation opens wider 
the door of future investigation. 

We who understand the science of prophecy 
grasp its possibilities for helpfulness and for 
teaching alertness in business or in the more 
commonplace daily schedule through our abil- 
ity to know to a greater or less degree, what 
to count upon in advance. We start in at once 
each morning to secure information of the 

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day's coming events in order to adjust our 
plans. The dreams of the night are one of 
the earliest indications. We learn to inter- 
pret them and estimate their value. Our men- 
tal attitude is another hint by which to reg- 
ulate our calculations, a happy frame of mind 
is decidedly auspicious. The insignificant as 
well as the important incidents of the day as 
it wears on suggest to us what is about to hap- 
pen ; and the colors, numbers and symbols that 
come our way tell the results of these happen- 
ings. It gradually becomes a sort of second 
nature to construe with the vision of a seer the 
ever changing panorama of life surrounding 
us. We become keen-witted as we develop 
our faculties by constant observation and ap- 
plication of our growing understanding of the 
new science which is undoubtedly as old as 
creation whether man existed or not to know 
and interpret it. 

The Bible is responsible for our firm belief 
in some description of spiritual existence, but 
when we pin ourselves down to an explanation 

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of what that spirit is which emanates from us, 
we are at a loss to describe its character. The 
whole matter resolves itself into a faith that 
there is something, though we are not sure just 
what. We feel like asking, "What is this so- 
called 'spirit' which has the power to jump at 
will from one living body at the moment of its 
dissolution here, into another one either here 
or somewhere else ? Where does it keep itself, 
and from what source does it derive its 
energy?" This doctrine is embodied in the 
teachings of one of the new cults, but is it any- 
thing other than a flight of fancy, and just a 
little absurd at that? 

We shall be taught how to interpret the 
Bible anew from the modern standpoint. Its 
problems will then be easily solved. 

It would seem that I am the only person who 
has ever been trained to view this world from 
the hitherto unknown vantage ground of the 
science of prophecy ; from the true knowledge 
of and intercourse with the guide; and with 
the idea of our going from this world to an- 

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other bodily instead of spiritually which we 
have always been taught must be the only pos- 
sible manner of transition. My new attitude 
toward life and the hereafter is something of 
a revelation. I sometimes wonder how it is 
possible for people to continue in the old 
beaten path with this totally different angle of 
perception and action open to them. But how 
can they help it ? No one has taught them that 
there could be a new manner of beholding life 
and its sequel. 

Suppose you could not read or write, that 
as you traveled or walked the streets you 
could not tell what the directions for your aid 
were or what the signs on the shops and stores 
told you; that you could not peruse the news- 
papers, periodicals or books, to say nothing of 
study; and most vital of all, were unable to 
read or write your own name. There are 
thousands of illiterates everywhere who cannot 
do any of these things, yet they are passing 
through life seemingly perfectly well. Some- 
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ignorant of something which affects their lives 
materially, a knowledge of which would alter 
them and the whole world, to a great extent. 
They also know nothing of their living guides 
or of what happens to them after they shuffle 
off this mortal coil. But just as most people 
are not willing or are not allowed to be illit- 
erates, as soon as they learn and can realize 
that there exists an unexplored field of learn- 
ing of much import along undreamed of lines, 
they will start a new educational movement 
and reap the benefits thereof. 

I feel that in conclusion I must say a few 
words more in respect to my own experience. 
In discussing the subject with other persons 
who have had and are having communication 
with their guides I do not find anyone with a 
parallel case to mine, nor can I discover one 
in searching literature on the subject. In- 
numerable people are hearing the guide's voice 
and are being informed of coming events as 
well as directed what steps to take in their 
concerns whether the usual details or matters 

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of vital importance; but rarely does the guide 
assume any personality that might be an in- 
dividual of makeup and station in life similar 
to the one hearing the voice, in short, a real 
and responsible companion. A lady calls her 
dictator "Little Sunflower" and thinks a young 
girl's spirit is communing with her. Another 
one says her controller seems to be an Indian 
as he uses only Choctaw dialect. The Red 
Man is apparently a favorite disguise, as so 
many persons tell of being guided by one. 
But all such intercourse is primitive and is 
plainly a ruse to hide the real identity of the 
voice's owner. Only one lady have I found 
who is impressed with the reality of her leader. 
She has felt at times that he is a human being. 
He is helpful in a practical way — if she goes 
to the telephone in haste and appeals to him 
for a new number of which she is ignorant he 
gives it to her and it is invariably correct. 

Richard long ago disabused my mind of any 
suspicion I might have of his being anything 
but a young man keen witted and full of vigor. 

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The most notable impressions I have received 
from his constant intercourse with me mentally 
are his uplifting influence, his common sense 
and his bigness; while noting every slightest 
circumstance and incident and weighing its 
true value, he lays the marked stress on the 
paramount, the far reaching significance of the 
confronting problems of life and their solution. 
He is my mentor only, he is not interfering 
in any way with the destiny of others; he is 
watching how I meet the events of my exist- 
ence, and showing me how a guide in some 
other has the power to make me do just as 
he wishes. Therefore I conclude that as I am 
no different from the average individual, other 
people have a controller who is acting in a like 
capacity to them. I am the type. In coming 
in contact with other people my actions often 
influence theirs, but Richard is not in any way 
directing such persons, only me, they are being 
directed by their own guides. It is confusing 
sometimes keeping (this distinction clear, to 
realize that you are never in direct communica- 

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tion with anyone but your own guide, and that 
other people's guides never communicate with 
or influence you. Yours may assume different 
personalities for some reason, as a Red Indian 
or a "Little Sunflower" ; one day he may come 
to you as the former, the next, as the latter, but 
in reality he is neither, always himself. Guides 
are good at deception and can make you believe 
almost anything ; but if so, it is to teach you or 
the world some law or truth. I find this ex- 
emplified in Richard's attitude myself, he uses 
a circuitous route occasionally, but I have 
grown to infer what he means. As a rule he is 
straightforward in his methods. 

He has impressed upon me precept by pre- 
cept, that righteousness is the only way of life 
for which we must never cease striving. He 
points out how hard is the straight and narrow 
path, but that any other is out of the question ; 
at least we must do our utmost and then if 
failures, great or small, are inevitable we can 
feel that we have done all in our power and 
need not be cast down by the negative results. 

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The veriest criminal has some good in him, 
and usually reaps the harvest of his evil deeds 
sooner or later. The points to be kept in mind 
are that we are just passing through this life 
as a stepping stone to another, that we had 
nothing to do with our entrance into it or its 
surrounding conditions, and that as soon as we 
are out of it we are made perfect by a force 
with which we have no more to do than we had 
with that which created us. The best of us are 
never quite perfect here and must be made so, 
while the evildoer's former self is shed like a 
coat of mail and his sins forgotten as an ele- 
ment that does not enter into the new life. We 
must remember that the righteous man is the 
normal type, the corrupt belongs to the abnor- 
mal and that there are always reasons for his 
being a derelict; we may not and perhaps can 
not know them, but they exist all the same. 
We must primarily watch and i control our 
own behavior, and see that it at least ap- 
proaches standard requirements, then we are 
equipped the better to deal with the delinquent 

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as he or she comes into our jurisdiction, and 
to be helpful in such cases as we can reach. 

Richard makes me observe things exactly as 
they are and not as they ought to be which in 
many instances would be more desirable. He 
will not let me gloss them over or declare as 
some of the new cults do, "There is no evil! 
there is no wrong!" with the idea of overcom- 
ing iniquity through ignoring it. You can 
never free this world from sins either great or 
small, you can better matters by dealing with 
transgressions sensibly and wisely, but saying 
there is no evil does not do away with it. Rec- 
ognize it and overcome where possible, if not, 
avoid it. He makes me choose the latter 
course whenever I can. "Do not run risks," he 
counsels so often, and "Lead us not into temp- 
tation," we are none of us proof against it. 
Always put your best foot foremost and be 
on the alert for advantages and opportunities, 
never losing sight of the fact that you are in 
a world where "every man for himself" holds 
good, and yet try to be just and unselfish and 

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true to yourself. Do not "go along with the 
crowd" when that means casting your lot in 
with law-breakers and degenerates. Be strong 
and a law unto yourself, a leader of the upright 
and you will find a multitude of followers will 
flock to your standards. So many are like 
yourself, heartily sick and tired of drinking, 
smoking, gambling, deception and vice; but 
they have not sufficient backbone and self re- 
spect to take a stand by themselves. It is the 
old flock-of-sheep affair, the average individual 
is devoid of ideas, without someone to copy 
he is at a loss what to do. He is usually good 
at heart and would almost as willingly follow 
virtue as vice, but he is too weak and lacking in 
moral stamina to originate any movement, it 
must be started by another. 

A young man recently appealed to the head- 
master of a noted school to turn the tide of the 
social degeneracy so prevalent today. His 
family connection takes him among the best 
people, but though eager to lead an ideal life 
he has not the courage to do so because his as- 

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sociates prefer riotous living. He wants the 
status all changed and righteousness made 
popular, but he tries to accomplish this end by 
taking no initiative steps himself, only getting 
someone else to manage it, then when it is in 
running order he will be glad to follow the 
new trend. How puerile and mawkish is the 
sense of such a procedure. If he cannot take 
a firm stand and raise the level of social inter- 
course, how does he expect his companions will 
do so ? Are they any better than he ? Does he 
thrust his hand into the fire because some scat- 
terbrain does? Why should he not start the 
uplift himself and ask some of the best of his 
friends to help? There are plenty of fine 
young people in the United States already 
(and this is the country now setting the pace) 
who find it is not impossible to take their 
pleasures as well as their sterner pursuits in 
a sane and law-abiding fashion. Moderation 
and not reckless self indulgence is their way, 
and it is this strong and sensible element, both 
young and old, that makes our country safe 

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for democracy. This applies to womankind 
equally with men. Some of the ways of the 
loose contingent are almost inconceivable. If 
we were not on the spot taking in the situation 
we should think history was belying itself, 
but there is no denying it. Yet always the up- 
right, the level-headed members of society are 
holding up their end of the line, keeping things 
straight and the degenerating element in its 
proper place. 

No one has ever had my experience and 
therefore its weighty significance is hard to 
measure. I feel that it is opening up a new 
era for the world, and that other people will 
have experiences enough like mine to confirm 
what I have been taught. All the old beliefs in 
disembodied spirits of any kind, sort or de- 
scription will be out of date in the near future, 
and the sooner the psychologists make up their 
minds to this state of affairs, the sooner can 
they arrive at the truth concerning our life 
after leaving this sphere, and also what is go- 
ing on all the time to cause the innumerable 

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psychic demonstrations without regard for lo- 
cality. New York comes in for its share the 
same as Canada or some foreign country. 

The guide, a living flesh and blood human 
being of miraculous make-up is the key to the 
riddle, of this I feel quite positive. That the 
voice I have grown to identify with a delight- 
ful young man both sage and sagacious, is that 
of a teacher. I am equally sure he is using 
me to enlighten the world because the times are 
now ripe for the truth concerning the whole 
subject of our exit from this universe and the 
"life everlasting." He has revolutionized the 
old beliefs and brought new ideas that no one 
would ever have dreamed of. These are the 
advance guard of what is now coming and we 
had to learn the facts about the future in order 
to be sufficiently intelligent to hear the details 
of which there are an abundance yet to come. 
So long as we are clinging to the old dogmas 
we are not in line for revelations that must 
reach us if we are to continue our progress 
which we are desirous of doing if great realities 

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are waiting to be brought to our knowledge. 
If we have come into an inkling of these won- 
derful facts, they are not so surprising when 
proofs begin to arrive that we need no longer 
harbor any doubts in regard to the reality of 
such unheard of actualities as immortal young 
men and women near at hand, at least men- 
tally, to lift us into another existence and an- 
other self, though not at the cost of the disinte- 
gration of the old one. 

I have found out that the guide has a sense 
of humor, and if he sees the funny side of 
slappings and rappings and crystal gazing and 
dragging bedclothes off on a wintry night and 
a hundred other manifestations in order to let 
the inhabitants of this globe know of his exist- 
ence, we are obliged to take his antics in good 
part until he is ready to divulge the truth, 
whatever it may be. I have had explained to 
me that all the mysterious psychic incidents 
which have ever come to our notice, no matter 
when or where, are entirely the work of our 
guides and are to teach us of the existence of 

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such people, also to prepare us for the full 
statement of facts with the details carefully 
laid bare that will clear up the mystery sur- 
rounding psychic phenomena and the future 
life of the human race. 

I can only estimate guides from my inter- 
course with my own, but I have found him 
about the most rational and clear headed young 
person who has ever come under my observa- 
tion, and I have had years in which to study 
his words, his orders and his influence on my 
daily life both in its minutest details and its 
entirety. The strangeness of it all strikes me 
afresh whenever I stop to contemplate him and 
his never ending association with me, which is 
only through his voice, but which is all the more 
astonishing because of that fact; how by talk- 
ing to me only mentally he can influence my 
every action through his having gained my con- 
fidence by showing me that he knows the fu- 
ture and what is coming into my own life which 
I have no way of discovering; also by his con- 
genial companionship and his constant in- 

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structions. He has been my educator ever 
since his advent into my head. Not only has 
he taught me facts that I could not learn in 
any other way, but he has helped me to apply 
what I had already studied at school and col- 
lege, and see how much more there was in every 
branch than I had realized, and how helpful it 
all could be made in dealing with the people 
and the problems of daily contact. 

He proves that all clairvoyant revelations 
are due to the guide by calling my attention to 
the fact that I have no psychic ability to dis- 
cern future events, and yet through his reveal- 
ing such to me I know what is coming when he 
chooses to tell me. Such occurrences as going 
into a trance or a dreamy half-conscious state, 
are not necessary to induce a person to divulge 
the future or to perform some covert act. 
They are only a subterfuge and probably have 
been employed by our guides because we have 
not yet penetrated far enough into the real 
conditions of the occult to permit of straight- 
forward methods in handling us. The whole 

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subject of the psychic can be focused under 
the heading of "Guide." He it is who is caus- 
ing the unaccountable occurrences seemingly 
supernatural but only so because we are just 
beginning to discover the real reason. Our 
determination to unravel the mystery is teach- 
ing us more and more about the technical as- 
pect of psychic matters. They have been re- 
solved into a science and are therefore raised 
to a higher level and given greater consider- 
ation than formerly when they were not 
comprehended as they are today by the 
scientists. 

That love is the saving ordinance acting 
through the agency of a living man or woman 
who has gone on into the higher life, which 
smooths out the mysterious path leading each 
one of us to life eternal, is the most beautiful 
idea ever brought to our knowledge. That 
we, struggling with the adverse conditions of 
our daily lives often leading to failure in spite 
of our efforts, are tenderly cared for even in 
the face of our shortcomings and guided "safe 

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into the haven" where "the wicked cease from 
troubling and the weary are at rest," is a 
"blessed assurance" and fills us "with the peace 
that passeth all understanding." 

We are now to know of a surety that our 
going on is just a natural journey bereft of 
all mystery and misgivings, and the reassur- 
ance, "Fear not, little flock," we may take 
home to ourselves. Hereafter all is joy and 
gladness, and our faith clung to through so 
many vicissitudes reaps its reward. 

"Well done, good and faithful servant, enter 
thou into the joys of thy lord." 



THE END 



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